Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed messaging queue service in AWS that can be used with serverless as well as non-serverless microservices and distributed systems. In this recipe, we will create an SQS queue and use the queue to transfer data.
Your first SQS queue (AWS CLI + CloudFormation)
Getting ready
There are no additional prerequisites for completing this recipe, other than the common requirements specified in the chapter introduction.
How to do it...
We will first create the SQS queue and later test it using AWS CLI commands.